حور وشاعر

دل عاشقان بمیرد بہ بہشت جاودانینہ نوای دردمندی نہ غمی نہ غمگساری

English translation

The lover’s heart dies in an eternal heaven – in it no afflicted soul cries, there is no sorrow, and no one to drive sorrow away!

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 10 in “⁨حور وشاعر⁩” (The Houri And The Poet) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

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